Branding

Humanizing and building trust with your brand can provide you with a strategic advantage over your competition. You must be real and authentic, listen and take action on what you hear, prioritize the relationship itself, and deliver on the promises you make.

Increasingly, brands play on social interaction to build communities and customer loyalty. But why is this approach so successful? And what are the pitfalls to watch out for? This post is about what you need to know to successfully tap into social norms for a strong brand.

As digital marketers, our focus on analytics has served us well in driving direct, measurable sales. As the dominant form of brand marketing, TV, faces disruptive technology and business models, digital marketers have an opportunity to grow their influence and impact. In total, this is an opportunity worth tens of billions of dollars a year.

One of the most commonly repeated messages in today's online marketing is that it's all about the users. In that respect, we have quite a bit to learn from the service industry, and this post offers six principles as your introduction to that lesson.

Humor can be an incredibly effective tool for your branding efforts, but there's some risk involved. With lots of helpful examples of approaches that worked and some that completely failed, this post shows you how to find the right strategy for you.

Here are some useful ways for charities and non-profits to increase their online exposure, without draining too much of their already limited resources. I include tips to increase brand awareness and donations at no cost (except for a little time and effort).

Brand storytelling offers us a way to connect with our audiences in truly memorable ways by appealing to their emotions. People have been telling stories for as long as they've been around, and with a few examples, we see how ancient wisdom can be applied to modern tactics.

A great deal of emphasis is placed on inbound marketing and attracting new customers. However, we should be careful not to neglect the existing clients that we may have. In this guide, I look at why remarketing and reconverting your clients can be a valuable tactic for your business, while also providing examples on how we can do just that.

Every brand has a story to tell, and the way users consume stories is changing faster than ever. How will you tell your brand's story across multiple media outlets and platforms, while still giving users an active role in the expansion process? Transmedia Storytelling is here to save the day!

Web marketing and the entertainment industry have more in common than you might think. In today's post, Ginaluca Fiorelli shares the epic tale of the Beauty and the Brand to show just much SEOs and web marketers can learn from watching the trends on the Red Carpet.